Server, interrupted.

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Gregory Boyce wrote:

> > Slap in the face #1: The drive is an ATA/133.  The only computers I have new 
> > enough to talk to it are my server and my wife's computer, both home-built. 
> > The penalty for breaking my wife's computer while she's workin on tax stuff 
> > is too horrible to mention, so I decided to risk using my server.
> 
> I don't see why ATA/133 would be a problem.  They are backwards 
> compatable, so they should work fine on any older IDE controllers, 
> although at a slower speed.

Yeah, I'm gonna retry that tonight and see if I can figure it out.

 
> Now depending on the SIZE of the drive you might have problems.  Anything 
> over 120GB (or was it 130?) you need a controller that supports LBA48 
> addressing in order to be able to use the drive.

80GB.

> 
> > Now, my server is pretty filled to the gills.  Two ethernet cards, CDRW 
> > drive, DVD-R drive, video card, sound card, USB, FireWire, SCSI card...
> >
> > Slap in the face #2: When I put in the hard drive, I ran out of IRQ's.  I 
> > didn't realize this right away, but it took some juggling of hooking up the 
> > drives in different sequences to get the motherboard to recognize both the CD 
> > drives and both the hard drives.  However, my sound card started playing a 
> > high-pitched tone that was so loud it woke up my parents in New York, instead 
> > of any sound it was supposed to play.  So I partitioned the drive, and 
> > removed it.
> 
> Are you using IO-APIC on the machine?  An easy way to check 
> /proc/interrupts and look for either "XT-PIC" or "IO-APIC".  Using the 
> APIC can sometimes help with IRQ issues I believe.
> 

[david at uni ~]$ cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:   42051885          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       6834          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:          2          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:      95591          XT-PIC  acpi, DE450-TA (eth0), ehci_hcd, 
usb-uhci, usb-uhci, usb-uhci
 10:       1665          XT-PIC  eth1, ohci1394
 11:    3526734          XT-PIC  EMU10K1, radeon at PCI:1:0:0
 12:      56078          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 14:     531629          XT-PIC  ide0
NMI:          0
LOC:          0
ERR:        115
MIS:          0

Never heard those terms before.  The limited STFW I could do at work
indicates that those terms are associated with multiprocessor boxen, which 
mine isn't.

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